The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 30 to 21
We don’t think it’s exaggeration to say that Howard Zinn changed the way America thinks about itself. His People’s History of the United States, first published in 1980, tells the history of the country from the points of view of its oppressed peoples—Native Americans, slaves, workers, women; it sells 100,000 copies a year, blowing the minds of countless college frosh.